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minerpumpkin

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Quote from: TheJuice on July 08, 2014, 01:48:27 PM

1st gen BFL hardware is negative expected value with electricity costs. Ditch it.

Definitely get rid of it or solomine and pray pray pray.

Solomine a block with that kind of hardware would make me reconsider whether there may in fact be some deity sending me a sign Cheesy

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: thehairymob on July 14, 2014, 10:56:48 AM

Sorry about yesterdays rant but I really have had enough of the jally. I tried today again to get it running then used it for baseball practice. All the while imagining it was those that run BFL.

Now I'm jealous. I wish you had uploaded a video of this to youtube.

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Sorry about yesterdays rant but I really have had enough of the jally. I tried today again to get it running then used it for baseball practice. All the while imagining it was those that run BFL.

thehairymob

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Tried to re-flash the unit. I am sure it didn't go well as it was too quick. I am still getting the same errors though so maybe the first flash was also wrong. I tried the file from BFL forums and one from Wolfnexus blog now with they same results. Is there any work files out there or is this all just for screwing with folk?

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Quote from: xstr8guy on July 08, 2014, 10:17:10 PM

Quote from: thehairymob on July 08, 2014, 06:36:56 PM

I just want to mine for the fun of it. In the past with GPU mining I got some cool stuff for the house with what I made. I don't ever expect to make back the investment in time and coin if I get up and running but I have to try to get it running. I think I prefer pool to solo mining more likely to get something even if it is only a few satoshi's, hehehe. Cheesy

The point others are making is... you are not only NOT going to make money with it but you will lose money because old BFL gear now uses much more electricity than it can possibly generate in BTC. I have 3 Singles in my garage that have done nothing except collect dust for the past few months.

Your only hope is to mine some wacky alt SHA coins and speculate on them.

If he solo mines and hits a lucky block he gets 25 BTC so how is that losing money? All about luck and having fun. Sometimes it's not about ROI.

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Quote from: thehairymob on July 12, 2014, 08:55:23 AM

Yeah the only one I have but my son has one too. I got two when I ordered mine. One for me and you guessed. My sons worked out of the box but mine has never functioned correctly. I tried as you suggested Thomas. No joy sadly, though I did manage to make a connection to both Slushy's pool and Eclipse but the unit never hashed anything. That was the first time it has managed to do so. I now believe I got a none functioning unit. Cry

Have you tried connecting your miner to your sons computer and his to yours? That would be the quickest and easiest way to tell if there is a problem with the unit or the computer.

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Quote from: ThomasCrowne on July 11, 2014, 12:47:30 PM

Have you tried hooking the jalapeno up to an entirely different and preferably "clean" system? Could be any number of factors preventing your jally from being recognized or utilized if seen (particularly if using Windows)

To add to this OP you say you have a Pi and you flashed the jala from it? Why not install minepeon and see if that works?

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Yeah the only one I have but my son has one too. I got two when I ordered mine. One for me and you guessed. My sons worked out of the box but mine has never functioned correctly. I tried as you suggested Thomas. No joy sadly, though I did manage to make a connection to both Slushy's pool and Eclipse but the unit never hashed anything. That was the first time it has managed to do so. I now believe I got a none functioning unit. Cry

bcp19

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Quote from: thehairymob on July 11, 2014, 07:10:05 PM

Will try that tomorrow, thanks

Yeah it feels like that cathoderay Cheesy

I take it this is the only miner you have? I would suggest also trying a new USB cable if you have not already.

thehairymob

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Will try that tomorrow, thanks

Yeah it feels like that cathoderay Cheesy

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Have you tried hooking the jalapeno up to an entirely different and preferably "clean" system? Could be any number of factors preventing your jally from being recognized or utilized if seen (particularly if using Windows)

thehairymob

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Going round in circles with this one. Done everything it told me but still the same results. And BFG keeps saying FT_GetComPortNumber. It makes no difference if I try another pool or try using a proxy. I don't think I did that one right though. Not good stats for BFL, 50% failure rate.

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: thehairymob on July 10, 2014, 08:33:11 AM

Starting miner...
46] USB all: found 8 devices - listing known devices
.USB dev 0: Bus 4 Device 1 ID: 0403:6014
** dev 0: Failed to open, err -12
[2014-7-10 14:24:32] 1 known USB devices

Anyone know what error 12 is? Or have you any help to offer?

That usually means you have not actually successfully installed the WinUSB driver. Read the ASIC-README.txt file included with cgminer from where it says "GETTING STARTED WITH USB ASICS"

thehairymob

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Update got USB 2 up and running (internal cable had come loose) but still above message in the logs.

thehairymob

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USB 2 doesn't seem to be working on my system so sadly I can't try that one. This is from the logs when I start Easy Miner:

Starting miner...
46] USB all: found 8 devices - listing known devices
.USB dev 0: Bus 4 Device 1 ID: 0403:6014
** dev 0: Failed to open, err -12
[2014-7-10 14:24:32] 1 known USB devices

Anyone know what error 12 is? Or have you any help to offer?

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Quote from: TheJuice on July 08, 2014, 01:48:27 PM

1st gen BFL hardware is negative expected value with electricity costs. Ditch it.

However, these Jalapenos are suitable for mine MediterraneanCoin. I have a lot of them. Today, I have mined over more than 1.5 million coin. Still in profit.

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Because it's sterile...

Quote from: -ck on July 08, 2014, 12:25:07 PM

If cgminer can't see it, it usually means you're plugging it into an unsupported usb3 slot. See if you have any usb2 slots.

What other forum can you get direct software support from the developer? Awesome.

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Quote from: thehairymob on July 08, 2014, 06:36:56 PM

I just want to mine for the fun of it. In the past with GPU mining I got some cool stuff for the house with what I made. I don't ever expect to make back the investment in time and coin if I get up and running but I have to try to get it running. I think I prefer pool to solo mining more likely to get something even if it is only a few satoshi's, hehehe. Cheesy

The point others are making is... you are not only NOT going to make money with it but you will lose money because old BFL gear now uses much more electricity than it can possibly generate in BTC. I have 3 Singles in my garage that have done nothing except collect dust for the past few months.

Your only hope is to mine some wacky alt SHA coins and speculate on them.

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Welcome to dogietalk.bs

As the title says.......

BFL.

thehairymob

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I just want to mine for the fun of it. In the past with GPU mining I got some cool stuff for the house with what I made. I don't ever expect to make back the investment in time and coin if I get up and running but I have to try to get it running. I think I prefer pool to solo mining more likely to get something even if it is only a few satoshi's, hehehe. Cheesy

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